Today we mourn the passing of former astronaut Neil Armstrong who was of course the first man to walk on the moon. The space race provided a backdrop to my childhood. JKF’s dream made real – putting a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

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Over the next couple of weeks, local students in Nottinghamshire are going to be receiving the results of their mock examinations.

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The integrated iPhone App and website for the Broadway Cinema began with an inspired ‘elevator pitch’ using a foam-board mock-up of the (then yet to be released) Apple iPad.

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The Learning to Drive .Gov microsite for the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and the Department of Transport centred around a ‘Young People’s Forum’  for 16-24 year olds.

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Creativity in art, radical politics and new ideas in sound combined in the 1970s and 1980s to create a new music movement in Leeds. Alumni Officer Della Vallance meets Leeds Polytechnic fine art alumnus Paul Fillingham to find out more.

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Art & Music: Making it

On August 21, 2006 By Paul Fillingham

Creativity in art, radical politics and new ideas in sound combined in the 1970s and 1980s to create a new music movement in Leeds. Alumni Officer Della Vallance meets Leeds Polytechnic fine art alumnus Paul Fillingham to find out more. Exerpt from ‘Momentum’ The Alumni Magazine of Leeds Metropolitan University, Issue 2, Summer 2006. Read [...]

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It was December 1982. Chris and I had returned to his parents house in Radford after a night on the town. We’d been dancing, drinking ‘red witch’ and giving away Smart Cookies demo tapes in Nottingham’s Rock City nightclub. ‘New Romantic’ nights were always interesting, the venue awash with fashion victims from all walks of [...]

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By the summer of 1982 the Smart Cookies five piece line-up had developed a very strong sense of identity. Songs arranged collectively through live rehearsals had a distinctive sound. Chris (Riff) held everything together with his strong 60′s guitar riffs, Russ and Rose added a swirling wash of sea-shanty strings and electropop melodies. Bob contributed [...]

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